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do we have a sell on clause for Ritchie after his £10m £12m move to Newcastle

No

Longer answer: No, because we sold him for up front cash to stop us going to the wall when neither Black (willingness) nor Jed (ability) would plug the gap

Easy to get angry about it now, but better to have a club than a liquidated company holding a sell on clause to pay back its creditors...

REALLY!!!!!!

just our luck

Wasn't there sometime similar with Southampton and Bale?

We get 50%. Power has spent it already on coke and whores.

Is it getting tedious yet?

They allowed Spurs to buy out Bale's sell on clause for I think it was 2m and goal keeper Tommy Forecast.

Similar but IIRC Southampton initially had a sell-on then sold it back to Spurs for not very much (but enough to pay a couple of pressing bills/creditors) when they were in danger of going tits-up under Rupert Lowe.

In fairness to Saints, I think Bale was still in his left back and remarkable bad luck talisman stage back then - wasn't it a ridiculous record like they didn't win a game when he started for two years or somesuch?

He improved a little bit after that of course.

Fucking shocking if we get fuck all.....but not surprising..

Why has he moved anyway? Was decent in the premier league for ballmouth. Surprised he's gone to be honest.

My powers of deduction and realisation of human greed says cash, and big fat sign on fee.

I'd rather play in front of 50000odd at Newcastle in the Championship than 15000 at Bournemouth in the PL. Huge step up in teams imo

I'd move from Bournemouth to Newcastle in a heartbeat, regardless of their current divisions 

Corrected ;)

Haha i thought it was more like that but I was feeling generous!

I'd suggest that once your club accept a transfer bid for you, you are left with very little option.
They've played their hand and labeled you surplus to requirements otherwise they wouldn't have accepted a bid in the first place.

Is that what happened ? Of course you are right if that was the case.

blame that cock Sir William Charters Patey for no sell on

Some assumptions on my part...however...there was no paper talk, or declared interest in Ritchie. He isn't entering the last year of his contract and stalling over a new one or anything like that.

Newcastle sold Townsend, a day later they sign a direct replacement in Ritchie.
Somewhat out the blue and quickly done in comparison to most transfer deals these days. So very much assuming Newcastle put in a bid, Bournemouth accepted deeming Ritchie not needed, so he signed for Newcastle

They turned down a joint bid from West Ham for him and Callum Wilson a couple of weeks back

52% of the UK hadn't voted for Brexit then.  Maybe the Russian sees the economy is tanking and has decided to cash in.

Was there a sell on clause for him?

Yep, two bottles of Newcastle Brown & a packet of Tabs